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" If you start trying to communicate ideas, I think you don't allow the audience to see themselves. "

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" I'm open to the idea of doing more musicals if it's one that I really enjoy. "

" The very first proper play I did was 'Godspell,' and I played the guitar for it, and I had a small part in a high school play. And before that, in sixth grade, I wrote a musical about Noah's ark. "

" Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years. "

" I'm really sick of anthems. Every song has to be a very big singalong thing - it feels very Eighties. There are a lot of 'whoah whoa whoahs,' this stadium thing. You're even getting that from some of the 'folk' groups. I can't stand it. "

" I was in bands, but they were punk bands, and you plug in the guitars, you turn them up really loud, you've got four or five other people on stage with you, you've got some protection from when they throw lighters. You can always hide behind the lead singer or the bass player. "

" I think Shakespeare really got it. He was the first one to introduce psychology to villains and give them a real point of view. "

" Advice? Look at your pay statements. "

" I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice. "

" You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there. "

" I always joked with my parents. I told them, 'If I don't make it as an actor, my fallback is musician.' "

" I always like teaser trailers because they don't give too much away, you know? They give just a flavor of what the thing is. "

" Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid. "

" Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation. "

" My dad was a doctor, but he was just always, like, going from hospital to hospital for some reason. "

" I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar. "

" That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro. "

" I grew up in a very devoutly Christian home. "

" Every frame of a Coen brothers movie is filled with history and meaning, and the deeper you go, the deeper you get. That's why their movies stand up particularly well to repeated viewing and investigation. "

" My dad always played a lot of music, so I heard him playing all the time, and then I decided that I wanted to learn to play guitar, so I got an acoustic and started taking lessons. I wanted to be able to shred like Yngwie Malmsteen. "

" What you wear can be such an indicator of so many things. You know, how you feel, how you want others to perceive you. So, that is an absolutely essential part of building a character. "

" I guess 'Scarface' was the Cuban Al Pacino. "

" I'm so bored by business and money. "

" For me, with a character, you start with the shoes. "

" A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear. "

" Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things. "

" The songs I've written that are the strongest, I'm like: 'I don't know where that came from. It just kind of popped out.' You feel you can't take a whole lot of credit for it. I didn't purposefully will it into existence. "

" A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated. "

" I have been playing acoustic music for a very long time, and it's something that I am very comfortable doing, so if I made a record, it would probably be a mixture of that and some other things that I'm interested in. "

" I had an audition where Josh Brolin was pelting me with his personality. I didn't get the part. "

" I don't know if they were all functioning, but I did play in a bunch of bands. "